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Pine64 has started shipping their smart speaker! (pine64.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Basically all their products are essentially dev kits. They are not meant for normal consumers. At least thwts how it has been for the phone, laptop, watch, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    The PineTime works great as a regular device as well! I did do a little dev'ing to get the weather to show in a watchface that hadn't been updated to include it yet, but other than that it's a solid device imo.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Which I guess is a nice way to avoid legislation...

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago*

    Sure, but they wouldnt exist without that. Making micro batches of specialized hardware is not profitable at all. Offering a real warranty would immediately bankrupt them. If they sold more than a few thousand devices per model then i would care, but meanwhile big manufacturers get away with so much worse.

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